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Re: Bug. "File or path name too long"
- To: Derek Haskin <derek dot haskin at commerceone dot com>, "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Bug. "File or path name too long"
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 06:34:09 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
The path size limit is set by MAX_PATH and is a limitation of the M$ Windows
system. It's set to 260 which is the NT limit including the terminating NULL.
I believe the limit to be 259 for Win9x (at least Win95).
--- Derek Haskin <derek.haskin@commerceone.com> wrote:
> I have installed Cygwin 1.0 on a new Machine.
>
> I am experiencing a problem where it seems that I am reaching the limit on
> how long a path/filename can be.
> I first experienced this during "make" which tries to create a class file
> but can;t because the pathname/filename is too long.
>
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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